It's All About the Country Music

We ate lunch at a place called Monell's. It's family style southern food. They have tables that seat 12 and they just seat everyone at one table until it's full then they move on to the next table. You don't know who your going to be seated with except those in your group. We were with a couple ladies who had come from west Nashville to visit the farmers market and the restaurant and a group of four women who go there often because they work nearby. The salads are already on the table as well as the drinks and biscuits/cornbread. They bring the hot food out once everyone is seated and then you get your serving and pass it to the left. It's totally fun and the traditional southern food was great. Oh, except the corn pudding, I really don't like that stuff.

Next stop, the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum. It was pretty interesting. It's got some great history of country music and a few cool pieces of memorabilia. There was Elvis' gold Cadillac and Webb Pierce's (?) silver dollar car. One of the displays had Trisha Yearwood's applications because she worked part time then moved to full time at the Country Music Hall of Fame. It's funny because she wrote on her application that her ultimate goal was to be an "entertainer." We also got to see Loretta Lynn's dress that she wore to someones birthday. She wrote a note to accompany the dress that explained that she fell up the stairs instead of down them while wearing the dress.

Walk through the rain a block and half to the Ryman Auditorium. This is where they used to have the Grand Ol Opry. It wasn't as exciting as the current Opry but it was still cool to see. The whole auditorium was restored - everything but the five 50 gallon cans of gum they scraped off the bottom of the seats.

Oh, and it has been raining most of the day. Yay! We really need the rain. It is supposed to rain most of the week so hopefully we'll get a little more in our reserves.